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Owned by Jacques Ouari of Jacques Brasserie, the restaurant that used to be Mix It and then Porcupine has now been reborn as a French-Moroccan bistro. Downstairs, past a vaulted castle-like wooden door, an intimate, boxy after-dinner lounge riffs on Gibraltar without going whole-hookah despite the North African-influenced D.J. Sure, aqueduct-like arches frame bottles of Grey Goose and Patron, thick wood slabs support the low ceiling, and keyhole-shaped doorways lead to the bathrooms, but you’re unlikely to find this style of gridded lightboxes projecting from red-and-gold fern-patterned wallpaper at the Alhambra. More than 75 tipplers can be accommodated at the banquettes and leather cube seats pulled up to low tables. The small nibbling menu ranges from Moroccan “chicken cigars” to not-so-Moroccan fried calamari and mini cheeseburgers. — Daniel Maurer